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Date: 09-Sep-2010
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic
Strengthening]: Harnisch (Ed)
 

	
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:34:01
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic Strengthening]: Harnisch (Ed)

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Title: Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung [Processes of Linguistic
Strengthening] 
Subtitle: Typen formaler Resegmentierung und semantischer Remotivierung 
Series Title: Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 37  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110223859-1 


Editor: Rüdiger Harnisch

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110223866 Pages: 383 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110223859 Pages: 383 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

Processes in which linguistic entities are "weakened" formally and in their 
meaning (e.g. "Kien-Föhre" > "Kiefer") have been well researched, but 
"strengthening processes" (e.g. Caribbean "hamaca" > folk-etymological 
explanation "Hänge-matte") in which linguistic entities are first created have 
hardly been researched at all. The intention of this volume is to fill this gap by 
exploring both normal folk-etymologies and more subtle ones. The examples 
presented include: the interpretation in children's language of heiser as the 
comparative form of "heis" - i.e. "heis-er", the literal interpretation of 
expressions (e.g. "Gastarbeiter" [guest workers] is considered wrong, because 
guests and work are mutually exclusive) and the attribution of meanings derived 
from world knowledge to words, which are not contained in the words' literal 
meaning (see the choices of Germany's annual "Unwort" competition for the "un-
word" or "No-No Word of the Year"). Pleonasms (such as "Hai-Fisch" instead of 
just Hai) round off the thematic spectrum. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Grammaticalization
                     Historical Linguistics


Written In: German, Standard  (deu)
	
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